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   XPost: misc.taxes, can.politics   
   From: alangbaker@telus.net   
      
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    Joe  wrote:   
      
   > > > Except that these employees are being dropped from the Ontario public   
   > > > service.  I understand your idea but I'm not sure what the language of   
   > > > the labour contract is.  Ontario wanted to get rid of these positions   
   > > > and so they did.   
   > >   
   > > And that was stupid, give the language of the labour contract.   
   >   
   > I have no access to the language of the contract.  So far, neither   
   > does anyone else who has posted here.  The clause in question, that is   
   > the clause that triggered the severance pay, was originally inserted   
   > into the contract while a Progressive Conservative government was in   
   > power.   
   >   
   > >   
   > > By contracting them out to the federal government, they could have   
   > > gotten the *cost* of those employees off the books and avoided incurring   
   > > the severance cost.   
   >   
   > The employees had a contract and the government honoured it.  Isn't   
   > that the way it is supposed to work?   
      
   Not if there's another way to honour the contract and save the taxpayer   
   money.   
      
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   Alan Baker   
   Vancouver, British Columbia   
      
      
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